Author: John Lawless

This morning's edition of The Onion, an often hysterical and always amusing faux news web site, carried a hilarious piece entitled Banjo Player Sought In Hootenanny Spree. It's the story of a police investigation of a string of random banjo

Williams and Clark Expedition will be featured guests on Sirius Satellie Radio's Channel 65 on Friday (6/8) at 7:00 p.m. (EDT). They will join host Chris Jones for an interview, and one would presume, some music from their current, self-titled

Things have been jumping of late for Rebecca and John Frazier of Hit & Run. In addition to managing a busy touring schedule, the two were married last summer (August '06), and they moved to Nashville from Colorado this spring.

Claire Lynch fans have something to look forward to later this year. Rounder will be releasing a new project featuring ten tracks from previous Lynch albums, along with four newly re-recorded songs. It will be titled Crowd Favorites - a

Long time readers of Bluegrass Today realize that I am something of a cheerleader for The Infamous Stringdusters. I had been mightily impressed when I saw them several years ago as Wheel House. They knocked me over two years ago

In the course of a post last month about Wildfire's new lineup, we mentioned that their web site had been down while a newly redesigned site was being set up. That site is up today at www.wildfireband.com. You can get

Award-winning bluegrass photographer and author Stephanie Ledgin will see images from her most recent book, From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music, highlighted in a new exhibit which opens on June 21 at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in

Back in February, Brance teased with news that one of Terry Baucom's post-Quicksilver episode 2 endeavors would include a signature banjo model, noting that further details would be forthcoming. Now comes the official announcement: After much anticipation, it is being announced that

Rounder Records has just uploaded audio samples for two new projects set for a June release. Ron Block's Doorway will hit on June 19. This is not really a bluegrass recording, but should be of interest to the many admirers of

Just two weeks ago, XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14) announced the debut of their monthly Top 40, based on how often individual albums are featured. The June Top 40, based on requests and plays in May, has just